Scots boy must give up Narnia website: U.N. judge

GENEVA (Reuters) - A Scottish schoolboy must surrender a
Web address tied to the Narnia fantasy world, which his father
said was a birthday present, after a ruling by a United Nations
arbitrator, an official report said on Thursday.

The U.N.'s patent and copyright agency WIPO said the
independent arbitrator had ordered transfer of the site,
www.narnia.mobi, to the estate of C.S.Lewis, late author of the
popular "Chronicles of Narnia" books.

"We are shocked by the decision," Gillian, the mother of
11-year-old Comrie Saville-Smith told the Scotsman newspaper in
Edinburgh after they were given advance notice of the ruling on
Wednesday.

"We put up a spirited fight because we wanted to prove that
you do not have to hand something over just because someone
richer and more powerful tells you to do so," she said,
according to a report on the Scotsman website.

The case was brought to WIPO in May by the multi-billion
dollar Lewis estate, registered in Singapore, as "Prince
Caspian," the second of a planned series of films based on the
Chronicles, was about to go on worldwide release.

The estate's lawyers, the U.S.-based Baker and McKenzie,
filed the complaint in May after the Saville-Smiths rejected
offers to buy back the site, for which they paid 70 sterling
($140) when the .mobi domain went on sale in 2006.

Media in Scotland have portrayed the case as a Narnia-like
battle between a family determined to defend what they see as
justice and a wealthy corporate giant -- a theme some have
compared to the "good v. evil" thread in the books.